I.
noun
1 money used to start a business, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ risk , venture
▪
They are hoping to attract funding from venture-capital firms.
▪ fixed
▪ seed ( esp. AmE ), start-up
▪ equity , investment , share
▪ working
▪ foreign , private
▪ human , intellectual , knowledge , political , social ( all figurative )
VERB + CAPITAL
▪ have
▪
We don't have enough ~ to buy new premises.
▪ accumulate , acquire , amass
▪ attract , borrow , generate , raise
▪
He had various ideas on how to raise ~ for the project.
▪ invest , provide , put , put up , sink
▪
The company has put a lot of ~ into the project.
▪
We can't expect the government to put up the ~.
▪
He sank vast amounts of ~ in the venture.
▪ allocate , expend
▪ free , free up , release ( esp. BrE ), unlock ( esp. BrE )
▪ tie up
▪
Our ~ is all tied up in property.
CAPITAL + NOUN
▪ assets , goods , resources , stock
▪ costs , expenditure , investment , outlay , repayment ( esp. BrE ), spending
▪ accumulation , growth
▪ account
▪ fund , funding , grant
▪
He secured $175 million in ~ funding from investors.
▪ campaign ( AmE ), project
▪
We are launching a ~ campaign to renovate the historic building.
▪
investment in major ~ projects
▪ gain , gains , loss
▪
~ gains tax
▪ flows , inflow , mobility , movement , outflow
▪ receipt ( esp. BrE )
▪ value
▪
the ~ value of the property
▪ market
PHRASES
▪ ~ and labour/labor
▪
Both ~ and labor were scarce.
▪ an injection of ~
▪
Inner city areas require a large injection of ~.
▪ a return on your ~
▪
Investors want an immediate return on their ~.
2 city
ADJECTIVE
▪ great , major
▪
The department store has branches in all major ~s.
▪ British , Japanese , etc.
▪ foreign
▪ provincial , regional , state
▪ cultural , finance , financial , etc.
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
the fast pace of life in the ~
▪ ~ of
PHRASES
▪ the … capital of the world
▪
Las Vegas is the gambling ~ of the world.
II.
adj.
Capital is used with these nouns: ↑ accumulation , ↑ asset , ↑ budget , ↑ city , ↑ cost , ↑ crime , ↑ distribution , ↑ expenditure , ↑ expense , ↑ export , ↑ flow , ↑ goods , ↑ grant , ↑ income , ↑ injection , ↑ investment , ↑ letter , ↑ market , ↑ mobility , ↑ murder , ↑ offence , ↑ outlay , ↑ project , ↑ punishment , ↑ receipt , ↑ repayment , ↑ requirement , ↑ reserve , ↑ resource , ↑ spending , ↑ stock , ↑ sum , ↑ tax , ↑ transfer